I believe in love. My husband put up with my disorder for over 20 yrs before we both knew and understood what I was dealing with. Now we both have education on the illness and learned my triggers, coping skills and we go to therapy together. It is not perfect relationship but there is no perfect relationship that I know of.

If you want to be there I suggest you start to educate yourself on Bipolar. Read a book called Loving someone with bipolar. It really helped me come to understand and accept that I deal with this illness. There are also support groups with NAMI or DBSA. They also helped me and my husband understand that we are not alone. It helps to have support from others that are in a simiular situation. NAMI has free classes for family called family to family its a 12 wk course. Very educational and you get to meet other families who have a loved one dealing with a mental illness. It takes lots of patients too. It takes both of you to make this realtionship work. Its not always easy but it can be done.

Hope things work out and keep me in touch with how it goes if you don't mind. You can PM with any questions if you like.